Astronomy
Insolation and Seasons
Weather
Climate
Geology
100
This takes 24 hours or 15 degrees per hour
What is Earth's Rotation
100
Gasses like carbon dioxide and methane that absorb heat (infrared) energy
What are greehouse gasses
100

Describe a Continental Polar airmass

What is an airmass with dry cool air

100

Two things that determine climate

What are temperature and moisture

100

The type of plate boundary associated with the San Andreas Fault

What is transform

200

It takes 29.5 days

What is the length of time for all moon phases

200

The main reason we have seasons 

What is the tilt of Earth's rotational axis

200
The amount of moisture in the air
What is humidity
200

The feature that has the biggest control on temperature

What is Latitude

200
A seismic wave that tarvels slowly and cannot pass through Earth's liquid outer core
What is an S-Wave
300

Ptolemy's model of the solar system with the Earth in the middle

What is the geocentric model

300

Area of the planet receiving the most insolation on any given day of the year

What is between 23.5oN to 23.5oS/between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn

300
Temperature that water begins to condense and form clouds at
What is the dewpoint
300

The side of the mountain where air drops moisture as it is forced to rise and cool by the mountains

What is the windward side of the mountain

300
The idea that relative dates can be determined by using known fossils and depth below the surface
What is superposition
400

The change in wavelength from short to long as an object is moving away from the viewer

What is red shift

400

Currents created in the atmosphere by uneven heating of Earth's surface

What are global wind belts or convection zones

400
Differences in air pressure caused by uneven heating
What is the cause of wind
400
The feature that causes temperature to become lower as it increases
What is altitude
400

The thing that gives all minerals their basic properties of luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, color and streak

What is atomic structure

500

The day sunlight hits the tropic of cancer (23.5oN) directly (at a 90o angle)

What is the Summer Solstice or Longest day of the year, June 21.

500

The type of electromagnetic energy emitted by Earth

What is infrared radiation

500

Monsoons develop as a result of

What are large changes between the temperatures of a continent and neighboring oceans

500

Why can cities at the same latitude and elevation can have very different temperature ranges due to the nearness of the city to a large body of water

What is water has a higher specific heat than land

500

The approximate percentage of the original carbon-14 remaining after 22,800 years

What is 6.25%

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